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More than 2,000 new compensation claims have been made in the last month by people who believe they are also victims of the Post Office scandal, a government minister has said.
The Post Office told the select committee in December that legal fees had made up £136m of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020, which is around 27% of the ...
It said that legal fees have made up £136 million of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020 – 27% of the actual compensation paid out.
[165] Shortly afterward, the government promised "fair and speedy" pay-outs for the 555 victims of the Horizon IT scandal who had been excluded from the Post Office's compensation scheme. [ 166 ] In July 2021, the government announced that subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences would get interim compensation of up to £100,000.
Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd was a UK group legal action taken by 555 subpostmasters against Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, the state-owned post office company. It was heard by Justice Fraser in the High Court between 2017 and 2019. Six judgments were handed down, two of them dealing with substantive matters while ...
The inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal, which saw more than 900 sub-postmasters prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect information from the Horizon computer system, ends this week.
The Business Secretary has said the Post Office’s corporate culture is at the root of the Horizon scandal, but has insisted the organisation is still “an incredibly important institution in ...
The Congressional Post Office scandal was the discovery of corruption among various Congressional Post Office employees and members of the United States House of Representatives, investigated 1991–1995, culminating in House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) pleading guilty in 1996 to reduced charges of mail fraud.